Look in your controller where you assign @employee. You are calling find on a plural model (Employees.find). Is your model defined as "Employees"? The Rails convention is to have models named in a singular form, ie Employee, because it defines an instance of a singleton object.
Try changing Employees.find to Employee.find and see if that clears up the funkiness. Also, this might be way off, but some attribute names can cause problems with ActiveRecord. Attributes that have the same name as internal ActiveRecord methods cause sporadic errors. The Rails wiki has a running list of pseudo-reserved words known to cause problems with AR: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ReservedWords On Saturday October 25, 2008 1:32:42 pm Miked wrote: > Ok, totally no reason why I'm getting an error in this model update > and no other. HELP! > > CONTROLLER: > > # GET /employees/1/edit > def edit > @employee = Employees.find(params[:id]) > > end > > VIEW: > > <h1>Edit Employee</h1> > <div id="main-sub"> > <%= error_messages_for :employees %> > > <% form_for(@employee) do |f| %> > <table width="600" border="0"> > <tr> > <td class="label">Email: > </td> > <td><%= f.text_field :email %> (required, will be login to > intranet) > </td> > </tr> > > ROUTES: > > map.resources :employees > > All pretty standard stuff - what's going on? > > ERROR: > > NoMethodError in Employees#edit > > Showing employees/edit.html.erb where line #5 raised: > > You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! > The error occurred while evaluating nil.to_sym > > Extracted source (around line #5): > > 2: <div id="main-sub"> > 3: <%= error_messages_for :employees %> > 4: > 5: <% form_for(@employee) do |f| %> > 6: <table width="600" border="0"> > 7: <tr> > 8: <td class="label">Email: > > Thanks so much in advance! > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
